Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Promise Quotes

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

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Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

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When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

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